Kadokawa Tanka Award
1 appearances
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Edition 11 (1965) nominee
Michimasa Sato
さとう みちまさ
Sato Michimasa
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1943-01-02 （Mizusawa, Iwate Prefecture (now Ōshū)）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Mizusawa (now Ōshū), Iwate Prefecture, Japan → Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Career
- Occupations
- tanka poet, literary critic, children's literature researcher, school teacher, editor
- Active Years
- 1966-
- Influenced By
- Kenji Miyazawa, Hakushū Kitahara
- Nominations
- Kadokawa Tanka Prize candidate (1965)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iwate Prefectural Mizusawa High School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Tohoku University, Faculty of Education | Faculty of Education | — | — | — | Japan |
Iwate Prefectural Mizusawa High School
Country:
Japan
Tohoku University, Faculty of Education
Faculty of Education
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Kadokawa Tanka Prize (candidate) | Aomi | — | Kadokawa | candidate |
| 1971 | Japan Association of Children's Literature Writers Newcomer Award | On Niimi Nankichi's Fairy Tales | — | Japan Association of Children's Literature Writers | winner |
| 1986 | Japan Society for Children's Literature Award (Encouragement Prize) | The Formation of Japanese Children's Literature: An Introduction | — | Japan Society for Children's Literature | encouragement |
| 2000 | Miyazawa Kenji Prize | Miyazawa Kenji: On the Engineer at the Tohoku Quarry | — | Miyazawa Kenji Prize Committee | winner |
| 2012 | Museum of Modern Poetry Award (Tanka Division) | Kyousou (Strong Frost) | 短歌 | Museum of Modern Poetry | winner |
| 2022 | Saitō Mokichi Tanka Literary Prize | Kishibe (Shore) | 短歌 | Saitō Mokichi Prize Committee | winner |
Kadokawa Tanka Prize (candidate)
1965
Work:
Aomi
Organization:
Kadokawa
Result:
candidate
Japan Association of Children's Literature Writers Newcomer Award
1971
Work:
On Niimi Nankichi's Fairy Tales
Organization:
Japan Association of Children's Literature Writers
Result:
winner
Japan Society for Children's Literature Award (Encouragement Prize)
1986
Work:
The Formation of Japanese Children's Literature: An Introduction
Organization:
Japan Society for Children's Literature
Result:
encouragement
Miyazawa Kenji Prize
2000
Work:
Miyazawa Kenji: On the Engineer at the Tohoku Quarry
Organization:
Miyazawa Kenji Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Museum of Modern Poetry Award (Tanka Division)
2012
Work:
Kyousou (Strong Frost)
Category:
短歌
Organization:
Museum of Modern Poetry
Result:
winner
Saitō Mokichi Tanka Literary Prize
2022
Work:
Kishibe (Shore)
Category:
短歌
Organization:
Saitō Mokichi Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Japan Children's Literature Association Newcomer Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 4 (1971) award
Shiika Bungakukan Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 27 (2012) tanka
Chōkū Prize
2 appearances
-
Edition 52 (2018) nominee
-
Edition 57 (2023) nominee
Saito Mokichi Tanka Literary Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 34 (2022) award
Works
Major Works
The Edge of Water (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
1978 tanka collectionAn early tanka collection containing poems that sensitively depict Tohoku landscapes and everyday life.
Tohokunaturememory
Ragged Diary (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
1982 tanka collectionA mid-career collection of tanka reflecting details of daily life and experiences from the educational field.
educationeveryday lifeintrospection
Kyousou (Strong Frost)
2011 tanka collectionA late collection notable for its austere, muted expressions. Winner of the Museum of Modern Poetry Award (Tanka Division) in 2012.
old agesilenceseasons
Kishibe (Shore)
2022 tanka collectionA recent collection of poems that gaze at the edges and boundaries of life; awarded the Saitō Mokichi Tanka Literary Prize.
boundariesmemoryseashore
Bibliography
- On Niimi Nankichi's Fairy Tales: The Arrival of the Self-Abandoner
- Valley of Twilight
- Burning Snow
- The Edge of Water (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Hakushū's Nursery Rhymes
- The Literary World of Kenji Miyazawa: Tanka and Fairy Tales
- Ragged Diary (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- The Present State of 'Education'
- The Formation of Japanese Children's Literature: An Introduction
- Adolescence Elegy (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Hakushū Kitahara: Taishō-Period Nursery Rhymes and Their Development
- Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato (Sasagoya Modern Tanka Library)
- Places of Students and Teachers
- Modern Tanka in Horizontal Writing
- To the Magnetic Field of Children
- What Will Become of Schools?
- Real-Time Tanka Theory
- From Kenji Miyazawa to 'Kenji Miyazawa'
- Bidō (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- The Poet Mado Michio
- Tenshin (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Miyazawa Kenji: On the Engineer at the Tohoku Quarry
- Back and Forth (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Tanka as a Crevasse
- Premonition (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Toward Miyazawa Tanka
- Notes on Mokichi: Reading Criticism
- Kyousou (Strong Frost)
- Mukasuko (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Rentō (Collected Tanka of Michimasa Sato)
- Alkali-Colored Clouds
- Kishibe (Shore)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- concise, condensed tanka expressioninterpretive criticism grounded in children's literature and fairy taleslyricism rooted in Tohoku landscapes
- Recurring Motifs
- Kenji MiyazawaHakushū Kitaharaedges of seasonseducational settingsmemory and boundaries
Legacy
He contributed to tanka poetry and children's literature research from a Tohoku-rooted perspective, leaving a lasting influence in poetry circles and children's literature studies. He is recognized for both criticism/research and creative work and has won multiple awards.
Academic Societies
- Japan Society for Children's Literature
- Museum of Modern Poetry (associated)
Archives
- Rojyo Press (archives of the magazine 'Rojyo')
Trivia
- Founded the independently edited literary magazine 'Rojyo' in 1966; the first series ended with issue 120 and the second series continued; the magazine concluded with issue 150 in 2021.
- Long-serving selector for the Kahoku Shimpo tanka page (reported as about 33 years).
- Known not only as a tanka poet but also as a researcher and critic of children's literature and figures such as Kenji Miyazawa and Hakushū Kitahara.